New performancing version 1.1 is out ... test notes included

• Performancing for Firefox 1.1 ...
  
• every blogging author should really give it a try ...
• it is so comfortable to edit posts in richt text mode ...
• and to have the editor as big as you like it.

Important: Performancing (for Firefox = PFF) is for Firefox 1.5 and above only.

• New features: PFF 1.1 announcement here
• One new feature is the growing "Performancing for Firefox Handbook"

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PFF 1.1 is called the technorati/del.ico.us version ... with a good reason. Using a combination of the Technorati options and Del.icio.us support you can post, tag and bookmark a fresh post all from within PFF and all in one easy operation! (see list-remarks below :-)

Result: Basic Internet marketing for your blog is already built-in!

Performancing for Firefox 1.1 note: bugs, issues (experienced during the last days):

I uninstalled the old version and reinstall PFF 1.1 again. I think this is recommended instead of just installing over the old version! I will check all the list items again in the next days because some of them might be there because I did install first over the old version.

Problems I had with PFF 1.1 after posting a recent article to performancing.com:

• Technorati tags were not automatically added (only adding manually worked out)
  
• del.ico.us bookmark was successfuly added with tags
• Update: Pingoat is activated properly
  
• Update: After a "publish as edit" (in CSS mode) at performancing.com (I think it is a CMS API problem, they use Drupal) the title is in the published content (inserted once at the beginning)

Some issues and missing features in PFF 1.1:

• Switching to the 'Notes' tab makes current article and publishing options disappear. As I want to use the notes as a source for text modules this does not work.
• If behaviour can't be changed then it should be impossible to click on the notes tab when editing an article.
  
• Workaround: have a second FF window open and copy the note from there.
• 'Undo' add tags: (no big thing but) if manually adding Technorati tags to a post an undo with Ctrl-Z is not possible.
• 'Publish as edit' on Blogger: does not work anymore with PFF 1.1. ... error #3 [object Object].
• Drag and Drop of coloured text from a page to the editor does not work. I checked with coloured text from blogger.
• Missing interface feedback ... (no big thing but) the toolbar doesn't interact with the text ... i.e. having the cursor in bold text doesn't activate the bold button.
• right click option 'paste as ...' or 'copy as ...': (no big thing but) sometimes I want to paste copied text without the original format ... or maybe only the format ...
• Delete all text formatting: Would be a very nice feature for the whole text or for a merked block to strip the HTML ... esp. when editing the content again for a second usage on a non-CSS or non-HTML page.
• Clippings extension: (no big thing but) a cooperation would be great. The Clippings extension stores text modules which can be inserted in HTML forms very easily.
• BBCodeXtra extension: (no
  big thing but) a cooperation would be great. The BBCodeXtra extension is a great tool to apply HTML, XHTM or BBCode to text. Very usefull esp. when pasting text from the clipboard.
• Update: Spellcheck: Spellbound is installed now works like a charme. Please read my article "Make spell checking with Spellbound work in PFF" in my blog at performancing.com to see how I solved that problem. It's absolutely not tricky but you should be able to start Firefox with administrator rights.
  
• Search and replace: What's an editor without that function :-)

Oh oh, a lot of different points ... don't hit me for that compilation :-)

The 'test results' will be checked again when I publish the next articles.
Comments are welcome ... as always.

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